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"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.” - Vince Lombardi
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81“The difference between the impossible
and the possible lies in a man's determination." - Tommy Lasorda
80"Don't measure yourself by what you have
accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."
- John Wooden
79“Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every
time.” - Lou Brock
78"Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly."
-Shaq
77"In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that, too. It starts with
complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination,
discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and
respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how
can you lose?” - Jesse Owens
76“It’s not the will to win that matters—
everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” - Paul “Bear” Bryant
75“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
- Mike Singletary
74“I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I
will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.” - Mia Hamm
73"The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.” - Tim Duncan
72“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief
in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember
all things are possible for those who believe.” - Gail Devers
71“I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you’re the one
talking.” - Gordie Howe
70“Sports creates a bond between
contemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment
that few other areas of endeavor provide.” - Bob Cousy
69“Treat a person as he is, and he will
remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
- Jimmy Johnson
68“Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity
that we absorbed the loss.” - Doug Williams
67"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute,
or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something
else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong
66“It ain’t over till it’s over.” - Yogi Berra
65 "You have to be able to center yourself, to
let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well
as your body." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
64"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win
or lose that counts,' probably lost." - Martina Navratilova
63“When all is said and done, more is said than done.” - Lou Holtz
62"The way a team plays as a whole
determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
61"It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog!" - Archie Griffin
60"There are only two options regarding
commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between."
- Pat Riley
59"You have to have the mentality of executing
your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when
somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come
together." - Andre Agassi
58"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your
teammates." - Magic Johnson
57"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing
how you react. If you're in control, they're in control." - Tom Landry
56"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll
be hard to beat." - Herschel Walker
55"The difference between the old
ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared
about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on
the back." - Steve Garvey
54"An athlete cannot run with money in his
pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head." - Emil Zatopek
53"Basketball is like war in that offensive
weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to
catch up." - Red Auerbach
52"For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows
and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that
you train and every night that you dream." - Emmitt Smith
51"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my
career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over
and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
50" Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”
- Author Unknown
49"Talent wins games, but
teamwork and intelligence wins championships."
- Michael Jordan
48“Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.”
- Author Unknown
47“You can’t get much done in life
if you only work on the days when you feel good.”
- Jerry West
46“There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to
work harder than you do.” - Derek Jeter
45“I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a
towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”
- Kobe Bryant
44“Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get
publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.” - Magic Johnson
43"Prepare for every game like you just
lost your last game." - Lon Kruger
42“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” - John Wooden
41“Everybody wants to take responsibility
when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.” -Coach K
40“If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater
price.” - Bud Wilkinson
39“Every time you stay out late; every time you
sleep in; every time you miss a workout; every time you don’t give 100%… you make
it that much easier for me to beat you.” - Author Unknown
38“You can’t make a great play
unless you do it first in practice.” - Chuck Noll
37“Good, better, best. Never let it
rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.” - Tim Duncan
36“My responsibility is leadership, and the
minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.” - Don Shula
35“Victory belongs to the most
persevering.” - Napoleon
34“Every game is an opportunity to
measure yourself against your own potential.” - Bud Wilkinson
33“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.” - Lou Holtz
32“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” - Joe Namath
31“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will
come.” - Michael Jordan
30“If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” - Dick Vermeil
29“The difference between a successful
person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a
lack of will.” - Vince Lombardi
28“The more you sweat in practice,
the less you bleed in battle.” -Author Unknown
27“The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.”
-Nick Seitz
26“All sports are
games of inches.” - Dick Ritger
25“Pain is nothing compared
to what it feels like to quit.” - Author Unknow
24“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you
can do.” -John Wooden
23“Strength lies in differences,
not in similarities.” - Stephen Covey
22“The achievements of an
organization are the results of the combined effort of each
individual.” - Vince Lombardi
21“No one can defeat us unless
we first defeat ourselves.” - Dwight Eisenhower
20“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of
misfortune, or temporary defeat.” - Napoleon Hill
19“To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize,
then plan... believe... act!” - Alfred A. Montapert
18“Success isn't something that just
happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is
shared.” - Sparky Anderson
17“Nobody who ever gave his best
regretted it.” - George Halas
16“Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on
top.” -Paul Coffey
15“Don't practice until you get it
right. Practice until you can't get it wrong.” - Author Unknown
14“Love is playing every game as if it's your last.” - Michael Jordan
13“Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever.
Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for
what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also
worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.” - John Wooden
12“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.” -Sir Winston Churchill
11“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is
dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison
10“Success is your dreams with work clothes on.” - Author Unknown
9“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work
hard.” -Tim Notke
8“Give me six hours to chop
down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
-Abraham Lincoln
7“Talk does not cook rice.”
- Chinese Proverb
6“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” -John Maxwell
5“The secret of success is to do the
common things uncommonly well.” - John D. Rockefeller
4“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do
not care who gets the credit.” -Harry S Truman
3“Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.” -
Vince Lombardi
2“Losers visualize the penalties of failure, but winners visualize the
rewards of success.” - Rod Gilbert
1“It's not so important who starts the game but who
finishes it.” - John Wooden
0“GAME DAY! BRING IT ON!”
-Coach Johnson and Coach Williams
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